News Roundup: Tragedy in Brooklyn, Giving Sheryl Sandberg a Break

All the parenting news you probably didn’t have time to read this week.

– On the Forward’s Sisterhood blog, a plea to give Sheryl Sandberg a break, who is “hardly the worst thing to happen to intelligent women since the “Real Housewives” franchise.” (Forward)

– Horrible news out of Brooklyn this weekend: expectant Hasidic couple Nachman and Raizel Glauber were killed in a hit-and-run accident on their way to the hospital. Their baby was delivered, but passed away this morning. Baruch dayan haemet. (New York Daily News)

– In what may be the worst headline of the year, the New York Times let’s us know “The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking” after some 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe were cataloged in continuous research done by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (NYT)

– “Bonnie Franklin, the pert, redheaded actress whom millions came to identify with for her role as divorced mom Ann Romano on the long-running sitcom ‘One Day at a Time,’ has died.” Both her parents were Jewish. (WSJ)

Molly TolskyMolly Tolsky is the editor of Kveller.com. She holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has appeared in various literary magazines including Lumina, MAKE, and The Collagist, and her non-fiction has appeared in The Jewish Daily Forward. She isn't a parent, but a very proud aunt. Follow her @mollytolsky.